Hello friends,I know it's been awhile since I last blogged, but I do have my reasons,so much has happened during the past week its hard to condense them into words,the most important thing is that, yes, i am still alive n well in the Hexagon,,I live in a town called Angers, which to my understanding is the bourgeois part of France, this was the place in the pre revolutionary era where the nobles built their castles and come for holidays and hunting in their freetime....anywhere u go u can see old houses, cathedrales, castles etc etc,,everything here is just sooo old...definitely a huge contrast from the hustle and bustles in Osaka...itd be good if ure into that sort of things,,which I enjoy immensely...

 

I work in a high school called Joachim du Bellay which if I am not mistaken the main campus was built in 1524 or something...yes..its that old...so it does get kinda freaky after dark and esp during weekends when the students have gone home to their parents to get pampered and teachers returning to their luxurious pad in the country......during the weekend i think there's only us the language assistants and an arab technician live inside the school...like now....the students usually jokes arnd saying the lycee is really haunted..the quietness really starts to get on my nerves.....and I start to realise what one of the surveyant meant when she said to me 'bon courage' when she heard i am staying at school for the weekend........this used to be an all girls school, now its open entry for everyone...but girls still makes up 80% of the students here...since its more like an artschool...I heard its the only high school in this region which offers subjects like dance,drama and other arty subjects....which appeal obviously more to female students than boys....living condition is not perfect...for instance hotwater during shoer only runs for 3 minutes then all u have is icy cold water on a freezing autumn night or morning,poor sound blocking system in the sense that i can here every footstep the pupil takes from downstairs and the forbidden rule of cooking ur own food which me and the other assistant have been find a way around by blocking the fire alarm with a plasic bag....I make this place sounds horible but the truth is its really a great place ...for 27 euros a month I dun think i have much right to complain at all... 

 

cant think of anything else to say...will update n put some photos on some other times..;hope all is well with u all...I really think I should get out of this room b4 I bumped into a French ghost on the corridor {apparently many nobles were killed in this rgion during the french revolution]...a bientot...